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DISTRIBUTING ARRON FOR SHOCK LOADERS.

AP-PL'ICATION FILED 050.31.1918.

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HENRY HENDERSON, 0F HALSTAD, MINNESOTA.

DISTRIBUTING-APRON FOR SHOCK-IzO-ADERS.

Application filed December 31, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HENDERSON, a citizen of the United States, resident of Halstad, county of Norman, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Distributing-Aprons for Shock-Loaders, of which the following is a specification.

In gathering up the shocks or bundles of grain from the field, considerable attention and labor on the part of the machine attendants has been necessary in distributing the bundles in the wagon box or receptacle provided in connection with the machine, so that it will be uniformly or evenly filled from end to end. This has been done by.

mechanical devices and also by pitching or throwing the bundles about in the receptacle, the latter operation requiring time and labor and more or less attention of the men around the machine.

The object of my invention is to provide an automatic device which will cooperate with the bundle lifting apron to spread the bundles from end to end of the receptacle provided to receive them.

The invention consists generally in various constructions and combinations, all as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a bundle receiving receptacle and apron embodying my invention,

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing, 2 represents the box or receptacle whereto the bundles are delivered. 3 is the bundle elevating apron mounted to overhang the forward end of the box and provided with a roller 4 and a shaft 5 having a sprocket 6 driven from a suitable source of power, not shown. This roller and apron are supported in a suitable frame 7 carried by the forward portion of the bundle box. A roller 8 is journaled in said frame beneath the roller 4 and driven therefrom through a sprocket belt 9 and this roller 8 forms the pivot or axis of the distributing frame 10 which projects over the bundle box and is provided at its rear end with a roller 11. A distributing apron 12 passes around these rollers and is driven from the roller 8. The frame 10 and the distributing apron are arranged opposiw Specification of Letters Patent.

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the middle portion of the elevating apron 3 and are of less Width than the apron 3 so that the bundles brought up on the middle portion of the apron 8 pass on to the apron 12 and are deposited in the rear end of the box, while many of the bundles or those coming up the side portion of the apron 3 will pass over the end of said apron on each side of the distributing apron and drop in the forward end of the box, and a certain proportion of those bundles which pass out upon the apron 12 will topple over the sides thereof into the middle portion of the bundle box, and thereby the bundles will be uniformly distributed from end to end of the box'without any attention or practically none, of the operator of the machine.

The distributing apron is capable of adjustment with its frame on its axis 8 and for changing its pitch or angle I provide a yoke 13 arched over the middle portion of the box 2 and having a hook 14 thereon for connecting a chain 15 thereto which is attached at its lower end to the frame 10. By means of this chain and hook, the pitch or inclination of the distributing apron can be easilyregulated. Generally this will be done as the box fills with bundles, the apron being raised as the pile in the box increases to make room for additional bundles.

The box is provided on each side with upright guards 16 to prevent the bundles from toppling off sidewise from the elevating apron.

The apron may be made of any suitable length according to the size of the bundle box and its width may, of course, be varied and in various ways the details may be modified and still be within the scope of my invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination, with a bundle receptacle, of a bundle elevating apron mounted to overhang said receptacle, a distributing apron mounted to form a continuation of said elevating apron and being of less width than said elevating apron, for receiving and conveying the bundles delivered by the middle portion of said elevating apron and allowing the bundles delivered by the side portions of said elevating apron to drop into said receptacle.

2. The combination, with a bundle receptacle, of an elevatin apron mounted to deliver bundles to sai receptacle, a distributing apron mounted to receive the bundles from said elevating apron, said distributing apron being of less width than said elevating apron for receiving the bundles from the middle portion of said elevating apron for delivery at the rear end of' said receptacle while the bundles at the sides of said elevating apron are discharged: upon either-side of said distributing apron in the forward portion of said receptacle.

3.; The. combination, with a bundle receptacle, of an elevating apron mounted. to de liver bundles to the forward portion of said receptacle, a distributing apron frame mounted adjacent the discharge. end of said elevating apron, a distributing apron operating over said: frame, said apron and frame being of lessv width than said elevatr ing apron, and means for tiltingsaid distributing, frame tov vary the angle of its apron with respect to said elevating apron.

4; The combination, with a bundle receptacle, of an elevating apron mounted to deliver bundles of grain thereto, a distribut ing apron and frame therefor mounted to receive bundles from said elevatingapron, said distributing apron being of less width than said elevating apron, a yoke mounted on said receptacle and bridging said distributing apron, and flexible. means connecting "sai'dyoke and said distributing'apron frame for varying the angle of said distributing apron with respect to s-aid elevating apron.

5. The combination, with a bundle receptacle, of an elevating" apron mounted to deliver bundles to said receptacle, a distributmg apron mounted to receive the bundles while the bundles at'the sides ofsaid elevating apron are discharged upon either side of' said distributing apron.

6. The. combination, with a bundle receptacle, of an elevating apron mounted to deliver bundles. to, said receptacle,- a. distributing apron frame mountedadjacent the discharge end ofv said elevating apron, a distributing apron. operating over. said frame, said apron and frame beingof less, width than said elevating apron, and means for adjusting said distributing frame to vary the angle of its, apronwith respect to said elevating, apronl.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of December, 1918.

HENRY HENDERSON.

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